Reconciliation
Last summer I had a giant truckload of rocks delivered.
It was so much. Giant pile. So much.
It was really exciting to have it delivered. As the truck backed in (beep, beep beep), I was giddy about the landscaping I’d get to complete…
…and then immediately my shoulders and stomach dropped. All the energy was sucked out of me as I stared at the giant pile. “Oh God. What have I done? I have to move all this one shovel-load at a time.”
That’s how I feel about so much in the world right now.
I have hope. I have faith. I have belief. I have optimism.
But, “Oh God. What have we done? It’s going to take so much work to make our world make sense again.”
My Bible app's verse of the day talks about RECONCILIATION. I love that word (even though it's so incredibly hard to do).
Our world needs reconciliation. Desperately.
I believe it starts with humility, mercy, love, and a spirit of abundance.
And it starts in our relationships.
One shovel load of heavy relationship work at a time.
That’s how you rebuild a world that looks like a giant pile of rubble sometimes. One shovel-load at a time.
That’s how we are reconciled. To God… through each other.
One sacred conversation… one sacred shovel load of hard merciful work… one back-aching scoop of love into the wheelbarrow of our everyday lives at a time.
Whose name do you not know that you should?
Who needs an invitation to coffee (a sacred encounter)?
Who needs your mercy, your humility, your love?
Who can you hold in your heart right now, prayerfully?
I hope you’ll respond to the text message I sent today… I LOVE the sacred conversations I get to have via text with so many people. I can’t always respond back right away, but I really love hearing from you.
So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
(2 Corinthians 5:16-21)
OTHER SACRED STUFF FOR YOUR SOUL
Did you see this week’s BETWEEN 5(ish)-Minute Sermon?
Will you come to an upcoming Open Chapel (30 minutes, most Wednesdays & Fridays)?
Are you reading along with our blog, “The Space BETWEEN Us”?
